From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 17 4: 9:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from slarti.muc.de (slarti.muc.de [193.149.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCB5637B63E for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 04:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25054 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2000 11:17:50 -0000 Received: from jhs.muc.de (HELO park.jhs.private) (193.149.49.84) by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 17 Aug 2000 11:17:50 -0000 Received: from park.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by park.jhs.private (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06616; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:43:05 GMT (envelope-from jhs@park.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200008151643.QAA06616@park.jhs.private> To: archive@in-design.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS wows From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd - Munich Unix & Internet consultancy X-Web: http://www.jhs.muc.de http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 00:51:21 EDT." Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:43:05 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "ARCHIVE" wrote: > We have an install where there are multiple fbsd boxes. Now to make lif > e > simple for kernel rebuilds and the like I nfs mount from one machine. This > machine has the ports and the src and for added comfort the user > directories. At first this seamed like a great idea but it is turning out to > be a night mare. When the nfs server "disappears" for what ever reason, all > the client services seam to hang. That includes login, web, ssh, named... > nothing works. Is there a way to make it so that if that partition > disappears the machines don't become hosed? > Thanks > Tamer Try `man amd` Amd automatically mounts file systems ... & unmounts on timeout. I switched to using Amd to avoid similar problems to yours. I'll send you my config as examples if you request it. There are many international readers on FreeBSD lists, whose first language is neither English nor American. To avoid making their reading un-necessarily difficult, it's best to keep the language genericly english, & avoid local dialects & mis-spellings (try using /usr/ports/textproc/ispell). Explantions of misleading spellings & mapping dialect to generic: NFS wows (1A) --> NFS woes (1B) seamed (2A) --> seemed (2B) night mare (3A) --> nightmare (3B) become hosed (4A) --> freeze/hang (4B) 1A Wow!: An exclamation 1B Woe: Bad luck, despair, as in "Woe betide he who is caught ...." (generaly used in old fashioned Enlish phrases). 2A Seam: 2 layers of material, at the join. 2B Seem: Appear 3A Night Mare: A female horse at night. 3B Nightmare: A horrible dream. 4A Hosed: American dialect, but is Not English, not generic. Julian - Julian Stacey http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ Munich Unix Consultant. Free BSD Unix with 3600 packages & sources. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message